Sentences with phrase «fresh surface»

The company claims that the plant has reduced its need for fresh surface water to 10 % of the overall volumes required.

One - fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply lies here, and it is worth protecting.

This study shows that warm, fresh surface layers in summer are followed by reduced heat losses in winter, shortening the time for convection.

«For various periods over the last 60 years, we have been able to combine important processes: atmospheric variability, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, water and air temperatures, the occurrence of fresh surface water, and the duration of convection,» explains Dr. Marilena Oltmanns from GEOMAR, lead author of the study.

The specimens were pressure fractured to reveal fresh surfaces.

Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) forms as upwelling bottom waters mixed with fresher surface waters.

Fresh surface meltwater makes the upper layers of the Southern Ocean lighter.

This dense heated water sinks below fresher surface waters that may insulate it for decades.

Salt - water intrusion / encroachment - Displacement of fresh surface water or groundwater by the advance of salt water due to its greater density.

In fact, the lakes comprise one - fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply and nine - tenths of the U.S. supply.

But it's not all good news for the lakes, which hold 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water.

One possible reason for the fresh surfaces, a team reports tomorrow in Nature, is that those asteroids had their surfaces disturbed by past close gravitational encounters with Earth.

As a result, the fresh surface layer that formed in summer remains stable for a longer time resulting in a delayed onset of convection,» says Dr. Oltmanns.

Today, 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water is contained in the five great lakes: 5,472 cubic miles (22,812 km ³), or six quadrillion U.S. gallons (22.81 quadrillion liters) in all.

They should be splendidly pressed to hold its fresh surface and fine quality.

The five Great Lakes hold 21 percent of the world's fresh surface water — an H 2 O supply that will come in handy in drier times.

Although the polynya has aroused continued interest1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, the presence of a fresh surface layer has prevented the recurrence of deep convection there since 19768, and it is now largely viewed as a naturally rare event10.

On the flip side, consumers will most likely get a new brace of Xbox One features to look at — again, building on Microsoft's new firmware announcement earlier today — and there may even be some fresh Surface hardware, too.